50 Books like An Enemy of the People

The Wild Duck

by Henrik Ibsen • 1884

A wounded wild duck holds a family's secrets until an old friend returns to shatter them.

3.81

11k+

🎭 Realist Drama 👨‍👧 Sins Of The Father 🔒 Family Secrets 🧒 Child Pawn 🕊️ Tragic Sacrifice

The Wild Duck 91%

A wounded wild duck holds a family's secrets until an old friend returns to shatter them.

by Henrik Ibsen 1884

3.81

11k+ ratings

🎭 Realist Drama 👨‍👧 Sins Of The Father 🔒 Family Secrets 🧒 Child Pawn 🕊️ Tragic Sacrifice

The Visit

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt • 1956

A billionaire offers her hometown a fortune for one thing: the life of her former lover.

3.67

39k+

🎭 Tragicomic Theater 🏘️ Small-Town Complicity 🕊️ Collective Guilt 💰 Wealth As Corruption ⚖️ Bought Justice

The Visit 89%

A billionaire offers her hometown a fortune for one thing: the life of her former lover.

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1956

3.67

39k+ ratings

🎭 Tragicomic Theater 🏘️ Small-Town Complicity 🕊️ Collective Guilt 💰 Wealth As Corruption ⚖️ Bought Justice

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen • 1879

She kept her husband alive with a secret loan. Now the man who knows wants everything.

3.77

166k+

🎭 Realist Drama 📜 Problem Play 🌅 Woman's Awakening 💍 Unequal Marriage 😶 Quiet Desperation

A Doll's House 89%

She kept her husband alive with a secret loan. Now the man who knows wants everything.

by Henrik Ibsen 1879

3.77

166k+ ratings

🎭 Realist Drama 📜 Problem Play 🌅 Woman's Awakening 💍 Unequal Marriage 😶 Quiet Desperation

An Inspector Calls

by J.B. Priestley • 1945

An inspector interrupts an engagement dinner to expose a family's role in a young woman's suicide.

3.82

47k+

🎭 Morality Play 🔒 Family Secrets 🚪 Drawing Room Drama ⚖️ Class Divide 🏛️ Edwardian England

An Inspector Calls 88%

An inspector interrupts an engagement dinner to expose a family's role in a young woman's suicide.

by J.B. Priestley 1945

3.82

47k+ ratings

🎭 Morality Play 🔒 Family Secrets 🚪 Drawing Room Drama ⚖️ Class Divide 🏛️ Edwardian England

Woyzeck/Leonce und Lena

by Georg Büchner • 1879

A romantic comedy of mistaken royals paired with a tragedy of poverty, jealousy, and murder.

3.27

4k+

😏 Romantic Satire 🎭 Mistaken Identity 🏃 Runaway Royals 🤡 Absurdist Humor 😢 Social Tragedy

Woyzeck/Leonce und Lena 88%

A romantic comedy of mistaken royals paired with a tragedy of poverty, jealousy, and murder.

by Georg Büchner 1879

3.27

4k+ ratings

😏 Romantic Satire 🎭 Mistaken Identity 🏃 Runaway Royals 🤡 Absurdist Humor 😢 Social Tragedy

Emilia Galotti

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing • 1772

When a prince covets a bride, his court ambushes her wedding and holds her captive.

2.92

15k+

🎭 Bourgeois Tragedy 🗡️ Honor Killing 💔 Tragic Sacrifice 👑 Abuse Of Power ♟️ Woman As Pawn

Emilia Galotti 88%

When a prince covets a bride, his court ambushes her wedding and holds her captive.

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1772

2.92

15k+ ratings

🎭 Bourgeois Tragedy 🗡️ Honor Killing 💔 Tragic Sacrifice 👑 Abuse Of Power ♟️ Woman As Pawn

An Ideal Husband

by Oscar Wilde • 1893

A blackmailer holds a politician's secret sin and demands a corrupt vote in return for silence.

4.01

45k+

🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🏛️ Political Scandal ✉️ Blackmail Plot 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🏙️ Victorian London

An Ideal Husband 88%

A blackmailer holds a politician's secret sin and demands a corrupt vote in return for silence.

by Oscar Wilde 1893

4.01

45k+ ratings

🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🏛️ Political Scandal ✉️ Blackmail Plot 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🏙️ Victorian London

Die Physiker

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt • 1962

Feigning madness, three physicists hide a world-ending discovery from spies who share their asylum.

3.89

44k+

🎭 Feigned Madness ⚛️ Mad Scientist ☢️ Cold War Paranoia 🕵️ Rival Spies 🗡️ Sealed Room Thriller

Die Physiker 88%

Feigning madness, three physicists hide a world-ending discovery from spies who share their asylum.

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1962

3.89

44k+ ratings

🎭 Feigned Madness ⚛️ Mad Scientist ☢️ Cold War Paranoia 🕵️ Rival Spies 🗡️ Sealed Room Thriller

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

by Christopher Sergel • 1995

In 1930s Alabama, Scout's father defends a Black man, forcing her to see her town's hidden face.

4.51

25k+

🏘️ Small Town South ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👧 Child Narrator 🕊️ Unjustly Accused 🌱 Coming Of Age Classic

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Summary

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 87%

In 1930s Alabama, Scout's father defends a Black man, forcing her to see her town's hidden face.

by Christopher Sergel 1995

4.51

25k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town South ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👧 Child Narrator 🕊️ Unjustly Accused 🌱 Coming Of Age Classic

Fuente Ovejuna by Félix Lope de Vega

by Lope de Vega • 1618

A Castilian village, preyed upon by its commander, finds no rescue from the distant crown.

3.55

12k+

🎭 Spanish Golden Age 📜 Historical Drama ✊ Collective Resistance 💪 Women Leading Revolt 🔥 Righteous Fury

Fuente Ovejuna by Félix Lope de Vega Summary

Fuente Ovejuna by Félix Lope de Vega 87%

A Castilian village, preyed upon by its commander, finds no rescue from the distant crown.

by Lope de Vega 1618

3.55

12k+ ratings

🎭 Spanish Golden Age 📜 Historical Drama ✊ Collective Resistance 💪 Women Leading Revolt 🔥 Righteous Fury

The Crucible

by Arthur Miller • 1953

A farmer's secret affair fuels Salem's accusers, and his wife is named a witch.

3.61

468k+

🧙 Salem Witch Trials 😱 Mass Hysteria ⛪ Puritan New England 🎭 Tragic Hero ⚖️ False Accusations

The Crucible 87%

A farmer's secret affair fuels Salem's accusers, and his wife is named a witch.

by Arthur Miller 1953

3.61

468k+ ratings

🧙 Salem Witch Trials 😱 Mass Hysteria ⛪ Puritan New England 🎭 Tragic Hero ⚖️ False Accusations

Darkness at Noon

by Arthur Koestler • 1940

Arrested by his own Party, an old revolutionary faces a choice: confession or death.

4.12

34k+

🛑 Political Purges 📝 Forced Confession ⚖️ Show Trial 🧊 Ideological Purity 💔 Betrayal Of Comrades

Darkness at Noon 87%

Arrested by his own Party, an old revolutionary faces a choice: confession or death.

by Arthur Koestler 1940

4.12

34k+ ratings

🛑 Political Purges 📝 Forced Confession ⚖️ Show Trial 🧊 Ideological Purity 💔 Betrayal Of Comrades

Caligula and Three Other Plays

by Albert Camus • 1949

Four plays by Albert Camus where grief becomes tyranny, silence kills, and justice demands blood.

4.07

3k+

🎭 Absurdist Drama 👑 Existential Tyranny 💣 Revolutionary Ethics 🏛️ Totalitarian Allegory 💬 Fatal Miscommunication

Caligula and Three Other Plays 87%

Four plays by Albert Camus where grief becomes tyranny, silence kills, and justice demands blood.

by Albert Camus 1949

4.07

3k+ ratings

🎭 Absurdist Drama 👑 Existential Tyranny 💣 Revolutionary Ethics 🏛️ Totalitarian Allegory 💬 Fatal Miscommunication

Wilhelm Tell

by Friedrich Schiller • 1804

A Swiss marksman defies a tyrant and must shoot an apple from his son's head.

3.21

9k+

📜 Verse Drama 🏛️ German Classicism 🏔️ Foundation Myth 🏹 Marksman Hero 🤝 Sworn Brotherhood

Wilhelm Tell 86%

A Swiss marksman defies a tyrant and must shoot an apple from his son's head.

by Friedrich Schiller 1804

3.21

9k+ ratings

📜 Verse Drama 🏛️ German Classicism 🏔️ Foundation Myth 🏹 Marksman Hero 🤝 Sworn Brotherhood

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare • 1601

His dead father's ghost names the killer; a prince must act before the throne destroys him.

4.03

1.1M+

🗡️ Revenge Tragedy 🎭 Shakespearean Tragedy 😵 Feigned Madness 🪞 Play Within A Play 👻 Vengeful Ghost

Hamlet 86%

His dead father's ghost names the killer; a prince must act before the throne destroys him.

by William Shakespeare 1601

4.03

1.1M+ ratings

🗡️ Revenge Tragedy 🎭 Shakespearean Tragedy 😵 Feigned Madness 🪞 Play Within A Play 👻 Vengeful Ghost

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare • 1599

A triumphant Caesar returns to Rome, and senators who fear his ambition reach for their blades.

3.71

221k+

🏛️ Ancient Rome 🗡️ Political Conspiracy 🎭 Inevitable Tragedy 🗣️ Rhetorical Power 💔 Friends To Enemies

Julius Caesar 86%

A triumphant Caesar returns to Rome, and senators who fear his ambition reach for their blades.

by William Shakespeare 1599

3.71

221k+ ratings

🏛️ Ancient Rome 🗡️ Political Conspiracy 🎭 Inevitable Tragedy 🗣️ Rhetorical Power 💔 Friends To Enemies

Twelve Angry Men

by Reginald Rose • 1954

A teenager faces the electric chair. Eleven jurors vote guilty. One refuses to rush.

4.07

38k+

🏛️ Courtroom Drama 🗳️ Lone Dissenter 🎭 One Room Drama ⚖️ Jury Room Tension 🔍 Hidden Biases

Twelve Angry Men 86%

A teenager faces the electric chair. Eleven jurors vote guilty. One refuses to rush.

by Reginald Rose 1954

4.07

38k+ ratings

🏛️ Courtroom Drama 🗳️ Lone Dissenter 🎭 One Room Drama ⚖️ Jury Room Tension 🔍 Hidden Biases

Demons

by Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1872

A mysterious aristocrat's return draws a Russian town into revolutionary conspiracy and murder.

4.31

64k+

🏛️ Political Novel 🤔 Philosophical Fiction 🔥 Revolutionary Cell 🖤 Charismatic Nihilist 💀 Ideological Possession

Demons 86%

A mysterious aristocrat's return draws a Russian town into revolutionary conspiracy and murder.

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1872

4.31

64k+ ratings

🏛️ Political Novel 🤔 Philosophical Fiction 🔥 Revolutionary Cell 🖤 Charismatic Nihilist 💀 Ideological Possession

Faust, First Part

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • 1808

A scholar bets his soul he will never find a moment worth keeping; the devil gives him Gretchen.

3.83

87k+

📜 Faustian Bargain 📚 Forbidden Knowledge 🥀 Seduction And Ruin 👰 Tragic Heroine ✝️ Religious Redemption

Faust, First Part 86%

A scholar bets his soul he will never find a moment worth keeping; the devil gives him Gretchen.

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808

3.83

87k+ ratings

📜 Faustian Bargain 📚 Forbidden Knowledge 🥀 Seduction And Ruin 👰 Tragic Heroine ✝️ Religious Redemption

Mother Courage and Her Children

by Bertolt Brecht • 1941

During the Thirty Years' War, a canteen woman's trade claims her children one by one.

3.62

23k+

🎭 Epic Theater 🕊️ Anti-War Narrative 💰 War Profiteer 💔 Tragic Motherhood 😇 Innocent Sacrifice

Mother Courage and Her Children 86%

During the Thirty Years' War, a canteen woman's trade claims her children one by one.

by Bertolt Brecht 1941

3.62

23k+ ratings

🎭 Epic Theater 🕊️ Anti-War Narrative 💰 War Profiteer 💔 Tragic Motherhood 😇 Innocent Sacrifice

We the Living

by Ayn Rand • 1936

An engineer in Soviet Russia guards a forbidden love, defying the state that would crush her.

3.96

31k+

🇷🇺 Soviet Russia ⚖️ Individual Vs State 🔺 Love Triangle 💪 Defiant Woman 🏛️ Political Oppression

We the Living 86%

An engineer in Soviet Russia guards a forbidden love, defying the state that would crush her.

by Ayn Rand 1936

3.96

31k+ ratings

🇷🇺 Soviet Russia ⚖️ Individual Vs State 🔺 Love Triangle 💪 Defiant Woman 🏛️ Political Oppression

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy • 1886

He sells his wife at a country fair. Years later, as mayor, his past resurfaces.

3.87

67k+

🎭 Victorian Tragedy 🔄 Rise And Fall 😳 Public Shame 🤫 Family Secrets 💼 Business Rivalry

The Mayor of Casterbridge 86%

He sells his wife at a country fair. Years later, as mayor, his past resurfaces.

by Thomas Hardy 1886

3.87

67k+ ratings

🎭 Victorian Tragedy 🔄 Rise And Fall 😳 Public Shame 🤫 Family Secrets 💼 Business Rivalry

Faust, Part Two

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • 1832

His soul bargained, Faust chases ideal beauty and builds a kingdom, but paradise demands a cost.

3.65

9k+

😈 Deal With The Devil 🏛️ Classical Mythology 💖 Redemption Through Love 💀 Hubris And Downfall 🗺️ Mythical Quest

Faust, Part Two 86%

His soul bargained, Faust chases ideal beauty and builds a kingdom, but paradise demands a cost.

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1832

3.65

9k+ ratings

😈 Deal With The Devil 🏛️ Classical Mythology 💖 Redemption Through Love 💀 Hubris And Downfall 🗺️ Mythical Quest

Mary Barton

by Elizabeth Gaskell • 1848

After a wealthy suitor's murder, a Manchester working girl races to prove her true love innocent.

3.75

22k+

🏭 Industrial Novel ⚖️ Wrongful Accusation 🥀 Fallen Woman 💕 Cross-Class Romance 🎭 Victorian Melodrama

Mary Barton 86%

After a wealthy suitor's murder, a Manchester working girl races to prove her true love innocent.

by Elizabeth Gaskell 1848

3.75

22k+ ratings

🏭 Industrial Novel ⚖️ Wrongful Accusation 🥀 Fallen Woman 💕 Cross-Class Romance 🎭 Victorian Melodrama

Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw • 1913

A linguist wagers he can make a duchess of a flower girl; she makes herself free.

3.88

111k+

🎭 Class Satire 🗣️ Language And Identity 🕰️ Edwardian London 📚 Unlikely Mentorship 💔 Subverted Romance

Pygmalion 86%

A linguist wagers he can make a duchess of a flower girl; she makes herself free.

by George Bernard Shaw 1913

3.88

111k+ ratings

🎭 Class Satire 🗣️ Language And Identity 🕰️ Edwardian London 📚 Unlikely Mentorship 💔 Subverted Romance

A View from the Bridge

by Arthur Miller • 1977

A longshoreman's grip on his niece turns desperate when her suitor arrives from Italy.

3.71

19k+

🎭 Modern Greek Tragedy 🧳 Immigrant Narrative 💚 Obsessive Jealousy 🤫 Code Of Silence ⚔️ Honor And Shame

A View from the Bridge 86%

A longshoreman's grip on his niece turns desperate when her suitor arrives from Italy.

by Arthur Miller 1977

3.71

19k+ ratings

🎭 Modern Greek Tragedy 🧳 Immigrant Narrative 💚 Obsessive Jealousy 🤫 Code Of Silence ⚔️ Honor And Shame

Four Great Tragedies

by William Shakespeare • 1606

Four flawed rulers, each destroyed by the one thing they cannot master within.

4.42

18k+

🎭 Shakespearean Tragedy 🗡️ Revenge Tragedy 👑 Tragic Hero 🕯️ Manipulative Villain 💚 Toxic Jealousy

Four Great Tragedies 86%

Four flawed rulers, each destroyed by the one thing they cannot master within.

by William Shakespeare 1606

4.42

18k+ ratings

🎭 Shakespearean Tragedy 🗡️ Revenge Tragedy 👑 Tragic Hero 🕯️ Manipulative Villain 💚 Toxic Jealousy

Colección integral de Sófocles

by Sophocles

When plague strikes Thebes, a brilliant king hunts the killer, unaware he hunts himself.

3.95

17k+

🎭 Greek Tragedy 🩸 Family Curse 🦚 Hubris 🔪 Cycle Of Violence ✊ Defiance Of Tyranny

Colección integral de Sófocles 86%

When plague strikes Thebes, a brilliant king hunts the killer, unaware he hunts himself.

by Sophocles

3.95

17k+ ratings

🎭 Greek Tragedy 🩸 Family Curse 🦚 Hubris 🔪 Cycle Of Violence ✊ Defiance Of Tyranny

The Wolf and the Watchman

by Niklas Natt och Dag • 2017

A one-armed watchman and a dying lawyer pursue the fiend who dismembered a young man.

3.88

23k+

🌑 Nordic Noir 🕵️ Odd Couple Detectives 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 🩸 Body Horror ⚖️ Corrupt Institutions

The Wolf and the Watchman 86%

A one-armed watchman and a dying lawyer pursue the fiend who dismembered a young man.

by Niklas Natt och Dag 2017

3.88

23k+ ratings

🌑 Nordic Noir 🕵️ Odd Couple Detectives 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 🩸 Body Horror ⚖️ Corrupt Institutions

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair • 1906

A Lithuanian family finds the American dream is a slaughterhouse that breaks everyone who enters it.

3.78

156k+

🛂 Immigrant Struggle ⚒️ Labor Rights 😔 Relentless Despair 📰 Muckraking Expose ✊ Socialist Awakening

The Jungle 86%

A Lithuanian family finds the American dream is a slaughterhouse that breaks everyone who enters it.

by Upton Sinclair 1906

3.78

156k+ ratings

🛂 Immigrant Struggle ⚒️ Labor Rights 😔 Relentless Despair 📰 Muckraking Expose ✊ Socialist Awakening

Bel-Ami

by Guy de Maupassant • 1885

Georges Duroy has no money and no morals, just the most useful face in Paris.

3.86

50k+

🖋️ French Realism 🪜 Social Climbing 😈 Amoral Protagonist 🎭 Cynical Satire 🕰️ Belle éPoque

Bel-Ami 86%

Georges Duroy has no money and no morals, just the most useful face in Paris.

by Guy de Maupassant 1885

3.86

50k+ ratings

🖋️ French Realism 🪜 Social Climbing 😈 Amoral Protagonist 🎭 Cynical Satire 🕰️ Belle éPoque

Oedipus Rex

by Sophocles

To lift a plague, an oracle demands Laius's killer. Oedipus vows to hunt him down.

3.73

239k+

🏛️ Greek Tragedy ⛓️ Inescapable Fate 🎭 Dramatic Irony 😰 Mounting Dread 🏺 Ancient Thebes

Oedipus Rex 86%

To lift a plague, an oracle demands Laius's killer. Oedipus vows to hunt him down.

by Sophocles

3.73

239k+ ratings

🏛️ Greek Tragedy ⛓️ Inescapable Fate 🎭 Dramatic Irony 😰 Mounting Dread 🏺 Ancient Thebes

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens • 1854

A father raises his children on cold reason, never guessing the cost until their lives unravel.

3.55

75k+

🏭 Industrial Fiction 💔 Loveless Marriage 🥀 Father-Daughter Rift 🥶 Emotional Repression 😏 Bleak And Satirical

Hard Times 86%

A father raises his children on cold reason, never guessing the cost until their lives unravel.

by Charles Dickens 1854

3.55

75k+ ratings

🏭 Industrial Fiction 💔 Loveless Marriage 🥀 Father-Daughter Rift 🥶 Emotional Repression 😏 Bleak And Satirical

In the First Circle

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • 1968

A Soviet diplomat's call triggers a hunt as a prison for scientists hones the state's surveillance.

4.26

10k+

🕵️ Espionage And Betrayal 🇷🇺 Stalinist Russia ⚖️ Conscience Vs. State 🧠 Captive Intellectuals 🕯️ Moral Awakening

In the First Circle 86%

A Soviet diplomat's call triggers a hunt as a prison for scientists hones the state's surveillance.

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968

4.26

10k+ ratings

🕵️ Espionage And Betrayal 🇷🇺 Stalinist Russia ⚖️ Conscience Vs. State 🧠 Captive Intellectuals 🕯️ Moral Awakening

Animal Farm / 1984

by George Orwell • 2003

Pigs turn rebellion into dictatorship. A man's secret love becomes the crime that erases him.

4.30

218k+

🏛️ Political Allegory 🚫 Totalitarian Dystopia 🐖 Corrupted Revolution 👁️ Surveillance State 📢 Propaganda And Control

Animal Farm / 1984 86%

Pigs turn rebellion into dictatorship. A man's secret love becomes the crime that erases him.

by George Orwell 2003

4.30

218k+ ratings

🏛️ Political Allegory 🚫 Totalitarian Dystopia 🐖 Corrupted Revolution 👁️ Surveillance State 📢 Propaganda And Control

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde • 1890

A vain wish grants him eternal youth; a hidden portrait rots with every sin.

4.14

1.9M+

😈 Faustian Bargain 🏙️ Victorian London 🎭 Double Life 🐍 Corrupting Influence 🥀 Decadent Horror

The Picture of Dorian Gray 85%

A vain wish grants him eternal youth; a hidden portrait rots with every sin.

by Oscar Wilde 1890

4.14

1.9M+ ratings

😈 Faustian Bargain 🏙️ Victorian London 🎭 Double Life 🐍 Corrupting Influence 🥀 Decadent Horror

The Pledge

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt • 1957

To comfort a murdered girl's mother, a detective makes a promise that consumes him.

3.90

11k+

📚 Literary Crime Fiction 🔍 Obsessed Detective ⚖️ Mob Justice 🌑 Existential Despair 🕰️ Postwar Europe

The Pledge 85%

To comfort a murdered girl's mother, a detective makes a promise that consumes him.

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1957

3.90

11k+ ratings

📚 Literary Crime Fiction 🔍 Obsessed Detective ⚖️ Mob Justice 🌑 Existential Despair 🕰️ Postwar Europe

The Three Sisters

by Anton Chekhov • 1900

Three sisters in a provincial town yearn for Moscow as their dreams dissolve around them.

3.71

25k+

🎭 Naturalist Theatre 👩‍👩‍👩 Sisters As Protagonists 🌆 Longing For Elsewhere 💔 Doomed Love Affair 🏚️ Family In Decline

The Three Sisters 85%

Three sisters in a provincial town yearn for Moscow as their dreams dissolve around them.

by Anton Chekhov 1900

3.71

25k+ ratings

🎭 Naturalist Theatre 👩‍👩‍👩 Sisters As Protagonists 🌆 Longing For Elsewhere 💔 Doomed Love Affair 🏚️ Family In Decline

Père Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac • 1997

In a Paris boarding house, a student learns ambition's cost from a ruined father and criminal.

3.85

69k+

🎭 Realist Novel 🇫🇷 19th Century Paris 😈 Corrupt Mentor 📈 Social Climbing 💔 Ungrateful Children

Père Goriot 85%

In a Paris boarding house, a student learns ambition's cost from a ruined father and criminal.

by Honoré de Balzac 1997

3.85

69k+ ratings

🎭 Realist Novel 🇫🇷 19th Century Paris 😈 Corrupt Mentor 📈 Social Climbing 💔 Ungrateful Children

Beartown

by Fredrik Backman • 2016

When a Swedish hockey town's star player assaults a girl, loyalty and justice collide.

4.29

618k+

🎭 Small Town Drama 🏒 Sports Drama 🤫 Small Town Secrets ⚡ Community Divided ⚠️ Rape Culture

Beartown 85%

When a Swedish hockey town's star player assaults a girl, loyalty and justice collide.

by Fredrik Backman 2016

4.29

618k+ ratings

🎭 Small Town Drama 🏒 Sports Drama 🤫 Small Town Secrets ⚡ Community Divided ⚠️ Rape Culture

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • 1808

A dissatisfied scholar bets his soul the devil cannot give him a moment worth keeping.

3.89

51k+

😈 Deal With The Devil 🥀 Innocence Corrupted 💫 Redemptive Love 🖤 Gothic Tragedy 🏛️ Classical Mythology

Faust 85%

A dissatisfied scholar bets his soul the devil cannot give him a moment worth keeping.

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808

3.89

51k+ ratings

😈 Deal With The Devil 🥀 Innocence Corrupted 💫 Redemptive Love 🖤 Gothic Tragedy 🏛️ Classical Mythology

Oil!

by Upton Sinclair • 1926

An oil baron's son inherits a fortune, then meets the workers who paid for it.

3.74

7k+

📰 Muckraking Fiction ✊ Labor Struggle 👨‍👦 Father And Son ⛪ Charismatic Preacher 🌴 Southern California

Oil! 85%

An oil baron's son inherits a fortune, then meets the workers who paid for it.

by Upton Sinclair 1926

3.74

7k+ ratings

📰 Muckraking Fiction ✊ Labor Struggle 👨‍👦 Father And Son ⛪ Charismatic Preacher 🌴 Southern California

Jerusalem

by Jez Butterworth • 2009

A woodland outlaw's kingdom crumbles as eviction and a missing girl turn his village against him.

4.04

3k+

🎭 Tragicomedy 🌳 Rural England 🏕️ Found Family 🗣️ Tall Tales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 State Of The Nation

Jerusalem 85%

A woodland outlaw's kingdom crumbles as eviction and a missing girl turn his village against him.

by Jez Butterworth 2009

4.04

3k+ ratings

🎭 Tragicomedy 🌳 Rural England 🏕️ Found Family 🗣️ Tall Tales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 State Of The Nation

Monsignor Quixote

by Graham Greene • 1940

Mexico's last priest is a drunk with a child, on the run and still saying Mass.

3.98

45k+

😔 Flawed Priest ⛓️ Religious Persecution 🕯️ Spiritual Despair 🔥 Reluctant Martyr 🔫 Police State

Monsignor Quixote 85%

Mexico's last priest is a drunk with a child, on the run and still saying Mass.

by Graham Greene 1940

3.98

45k+ ratings

😔 Flawed Priest ⛓️ Religious Persecution 🕯️ Spiritual Despair 🔥 Reluctant Martyr 🔫 Police State

M. Butterfly

by David Henry Hwang • 1998

A French diplomat in Beijing falls for an opera singer whose love is a mask for espionage.

3.94

15k+

🎭 Memory Play 👤 Unreliable Narrator 👘 Cross-Dressing 🫤 Self-Deception 🕵️ Cold War Intrigue

M. Butterfly 85%

A French diplomat in Beijing falls for an opera singer whose love is a mask for espionage.

by David Henry Hwang 1998

3.94

15k+ ratings

🎭 Memory Play 👤 Unreliable Narrator 👘 Cross-Dressing 🫤 Self-Deception 🕵️ Cold War Intrigue

The Clown

by Heinrich Böll • 1963

A clown in postwar Bonn unravels after the woman he loves leaves him for a Catholic.

3.93

32k+

🏚️ German Postwar 🤔 Existential Novel 🎭 Artistic Outsider ⛪ Religious Hypocrisy 🏛️ Postwar Hypocrisy

The Clown 85%

A clown in postwar Bonn unravels after the woman he loves leaves him for a Catholic.

by Heinrich Böll 1963

3.93

32k+ ratings

🏚️ German Postwar 🤔 Existential Novel 🎭 Artistic Outsider ⛪ Religious Hypocrisy 🏛️ Postwar Hypocrisy

Don Juan

by Molière • 2001

He worships pleasure, mocks heaven, invites a dead man's statue to dinner. The stone nods.

3.55

19k+

🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🎩 Master And Servant 💔 Unrepentant Rake ⚡ Divine Retribution 🖤 Dark Comedy

Don Juan 85%

He worships pleasure, mocks heaven, invites a dead man's statue to dinner. The stone nods.

by Molière 2001

3.55

19k+ ratings

🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🎩 Master And Servant 💔 Unrepentant Rake ⚡ Divine Retribution 🖤 Dark Comedy

Dead Souls

by Nikolai Gogol • 1842

A middle-aged con man rides through Russia buying deceased serfs to mortgage as living property.

3.98

98k+

🃏 Picaresque Satire 🎭 Grotesque Realism 🕴️ Con Artist Protagonist 🏘️ Provincial Absurdity 🎪 Gallery Of Eccentrics

Dead Souls 85%

A middle-aged con man rides through Russia buying deceased serfs to mortgage as living property.

by Nikolai Gogol 1842

3.98

98k+ ratings

🃏 Picaresque Satire 🎭 Grotesque Realism 🕴️ Con Artist Protagonist 🏘️ Provincial Absurdity 🎪 Gallery Of Eccentrics

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello • 1921

Six characters abandoned by their creator storm a rehearsal and demand their tragic story be staged

3.83

23k+

🎭 Metatheatrical Play 🖤 Dark Family Drama 🤔 Philosophical Theater 🎪 Modernist Drama 🧩 Fragmented Storytelling

Six Characters in Search of an Author Summary

Six Characters in Search of an Author 85%

Six characters abandoned by their creator storm a rehearsal and demand their tragic story be staged

by Luigi Pirandello 1921

3.83

23k+ ratings

🎭 Metatheatrical Play 🖤 Dark Family Drama 🤔 Philosophical Theater 🎪 Modernist Drama 🧩 Fragmented Storytelling

Satantango

by László Krasznahorkai • 1985

A crumbling Hungarian farm, endless rain, a dead con man the villagers need to believe.

4.06

17k+

🏰 Hungarian Literature 🔨 Communist-Era Fiction 🎭 False Messiah 👁️ Collective Delusion ⏳ Waiting And Inertia

Satantango 85%

A crumbling Hungarian farm, endless rain, a dead con man the villagers need to believe.

by László Krasznahorkai 1985

4.06

17k+ ratings

🏰 Hungarian Literature 🔨 Communist-Era Fiction 🎭 False Messiah 👁️ Collective Delusion ⏳ Waiting And Inertia

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